And just in time to criticize nationalism and celebrate independence. "Empires fall. The American empire will not always have the credit and global power it now has. It is in fact losing them with each day. It is thus much better on the Fourth to celebrate liberty, the idea of independence from the state, and hope and work for its rebirth, rather than be among those celebrating such a transient cause as the American nation-state with its current surplus of power and deficits in liberty and...

Check out this by Glenn Greenwald. Now you know. Thanks: Matt

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to...

See what I mean? Ooh, and check out this one.

I'm a big fan of the New American magazine's editor Will Grigg. Here's an example of what I mean: "In 1952, the individual who would become the Johnny Appleseed of American neo-Fascism, William F. Buckley, adumbrated that vision in an essay published by Commonweal. Owing to the threat posed by the Soviet Union, Buckley asserted,

In short, even if I were absolutely convinced that we had found towering piles of WMD in Iraq, I don't care. Neither should you or anyone else. It doesn't matter. By the way, there weren't any.

Hooray! My good friend, and sometimes partner in criminal/subversive activities, Angela Keaton, was elected today to the Libertarian Party National Committee. Also, she said at least one of the whiny, pro-war, Libertarian "moderate" leaders has quit the party, I suppose to go back to the Republicans where he belongs. It's either my friend Ernest Hancock or Bill Redpath - who I don't know, but they say is antiwar - for chair. Individualism in American politics is not dead yet. Update: Redpath...

Hey y'all, I want to recommend this great article from Vanity Fair, reprinted in the Independent, about the sorry, Orwellian state of "Great" Britain under Tony Blair. But does Tony Blair have drooling war-bot idiots who blindly support his every move like Bush has in his Red-State Fascists? How does he get away with it? I gotta say, the attacks on the NY Times and the Supreme Court this week are pretty disturbing. It's like the entire political debate in this country has devolved to the level...